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Rock's Backpages is the world's most comprehensive online database of pop music writing, a unique resource unavailable elsewhere online. It contains an
ever-expanding collection of primary-source full-text articles from the music and mainstream press from the 1950s to the present day, along with a collection of
exclusive audio interviews.

Subscriptions to Rock’s Backpages are available for institutional or personal use.

For institutions, Rock's Backpages is provided as an unlimited access subscription, meaning that all staff, students and library patrons have
unrestricted remote and on-site access to each text and audio file in the database. For full terms, please click here.

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AUDIO: Jackson Browne (1993)

Barney Hoskyns,
Rock's Backpages Audio,
18 October 1993

On songwriting – the political versus the personal – and the making of his album I'm Alive; his brushes with movie soundtrack songwriting and his love of pop music; on the rise of country rock; the Ash Grove and Troubadour scenes; David Geffen; the notorious Elektra Ranch and the singer songwriter movement.

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